Deaths in August 1999

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 1999.

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Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

August 1999

1

• Rudy Burckhardt, 85, Swiss-American filmmaker and photographer, suicide by drowning.[1]
• Nirad C. Chaudhuri, 101, Indian English-language writer.[2]
• Tommy Hinnershitz, 87, American race car driver.
• Kalyan Kumar, 71, Indian film actor and producer.
• İrfan Özaydınlı, 75, Turkish soldier and politician.
• Paris Pişmiş, 88, Armenian-Mexican astronomer.[3]

2

• Gregorio Cárdenas Hernández, Mexican serial killer.
• Alf Miller, 82, English football player and coach.
• Willie Morris, 64, American writer and editor.[4]
• Ana Rosa Núñez, 73, Cuban-American poet and librarian, brain hemorrhage.[5]
• Charles Rappolt, 59, Australian politician, suicide.
• Peter Vanneck, 77, British Royal Navy officer, fighter pilot and politician.

3

• Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayati, 72, Iraqi poet.
• Rod Ansell, 44, Australian cattle grazier, buffalo hunter and inspiration for the movie character Crocodile Dundee, killed in a police shootout.[6]
• Yitzhak Rafael, 85, Israeli politician.
• Naomi Sim, 85, English actress and writer.[7]
• Leroy Vinnegar, 71, American jazz bassist, heart attack.
• Roy Wiggins, 73, American steel guitarist.

4

• Akhlaq Ahmed, 49, Pakistani playback singer, blood cancer.
• Victor Mature, 86, American film actor (Samson and Delilah, Kiss of Death), leukemia.[8]
• Chuck Sweeney, 85, American football player.
• Carl Toms, 72, British set and costume designer, emphysema.[9]

5

• James Failla, 80, American mobster
• Henry Holloway, 68, Australian rugby player and coach.
• John Kacere, 79, American artist.
• David Munro, 55, English documentary filmmaker, cancer.[10]

6

• Mihai Băcescu, 91, Romanian zoologist.
• Raymond Hart, 86, British seaman and a Royal Navy officer.[11]
• Ilse Pausin, 80, Austrian pair skater.
• Kalpnath Rai, 58, Indian politician, heart attack.
• Rita Sakellariou, 64, Greek singer, cancer.
• Muhammad Shariff, 78, Pakistani army general.[12]
• Claudette Sorel, 66, American pianist and educator, cancer.[13]
• Doug Witcomb, 81, Welsh football player.

7

• Wally Albright, 73, American former child actor.
• Frances Baldwin, 91, American painter.
• Jonathan Boyd, 54, Australian professional wrestler, heart attack.[14]
• Brion James, 54, American film actor, heart attack.
• J. Andrew Keith, 40, American role-playing game designer.
• Harry Litwack, 91, American college basketball coach.[15]
• Tsou Tang, 80, Chinese-born American political scientist.[16]
• John Van Ryn, 94, American tennis player.

8

• Dora Davidsohn, 89, German activist.
• Paavo Rintala, 68, Finnish novelist and theologian.
• Dora Schaul, 85, German resistance activist during World War II.
• Harry Walker, 82, American baseball player, manager and coach.[17]

9

• Ira Baldwin, 103, American academic and administrator.
• Bill Bradbury, 66, English footballer, heart attack.
• Bob Herbert, 57, English talent manager, traffic collision.
• William Arthur Irwin, 101, Canadian journalist and diplomat, asthma.[18]
• Brandon Moss, 90, British police officer and recipient of the George Cross.
• John O'Neill, 56, Australian rugby player, cancer.
• Helen Rollason, 43, British sports journalist and television presenter, colorectal cancer.[19]
• Jackie Sato, 41, professional wrestler from Yokohama, Japan, stomach cancer.
• Riley Smith, 88, American football player.
• Abraham H. Taub, 88, American mathematician and physicist.
• Yuri Volyntsev, 67, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.

10

• Lee Baggett Jr., 72, four star admiral in the United States Navy, heart disease.
• Paweł Czartoryski, 75, Polish historian.
• Giuseppe Delfino, 77, Italian fencer and Olympic champion.
• Jens Hoyer Hansen, 59, Danish-born New Zealand jeweller, cancer.
• Ernesto Melo Antunes, 65, Portuguese military officer.[20]
• Jennifer Paterson, 71, British chef and television personality (Two Fat Ladies), lung cancer.[21]
• Anthony Radziwiłł, 40, American television executive and filmmaker, cancer.
• Baldev Upadhyaya, 99, Indian literary historian, essayist and critic.

11

• Dickie Davis, 77, English footballer.
• Robert Dorfmann, 87, French film producer.
• Robert Thomas Jones, 89, American engineer.
• Ernst Kaether, 95, German Wehrmacht general during World War II.
• Mimi Pollak, 96, Swedish actress and theatre director.
• Byron Randall, 80, American West Coast artist, emphysema.[22]
• Tommy Ridgley, 73, American R&B singer and bandleader, lung cancer.
• Henk Chin A Sen, 65, Surinamese politician.

12

• Pavel Arsenov, 63, Soviet and Russian film actor, screenwriter and film director.
• Jean Drapeau, 83, Canadian lawyer and politician.[23]
• Ross Elliott, 82, American television and film character actor, cancer.
• Sir John Hale, 75, British historian.
• Wilfrid Kalaugher, 94, New Zealand athlete and scholar.
• Martin Wong, 53, Chinese-American painter, AIDS related illness.[24]
• Can Yücel, 72, Turkish poet, throat cancer.

13

• Ignatz Bubis, 72, German Jewish leader.[25]
• Susana Ferrari Billinghurst, 85, Argentine aviator.
• Jaime Garzón, 38, Colombian comedian, journalist, politician, and peace activist, murdered.
• Frederick Hart, 55, American sculptor, cancer.[26]
• Nathaniel Kleitman, 104, American physiologist and sleep researcher.[27]
• Argentina Díaz Lozano, 86, Honduran journalist and novelist.
• Thomas L. Ridge, 84, United States Marine Corps officer.

14

• Evelyn Adams, 75, American baseball player (AAGPBL)[28]
• Allan La Fontaine, 88, Australian rules footballer.
• Lane Kirkland, 77, American labor union leader, cancer.[29]
• Pat Mullin, 81, American baseball player.
• John Pingel, 82, American football player.
• Pee Wee Reese, 81, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.[30]
• Lidia Selkregg, Italian geologist.

15

• Patricia Beer, 79, English poet and critic.[31]
• Hugh Casson, 89, English architect, interior designer, artist and writer.[32]
• Frank Castle, 75, English sprint athlete, rugby union, and rugby league footballer.
• Paddy Devlin, 74, Irish social democrat, labour and civil rights activist.[33]
• Helene Kirsch, 93, German politician.
• Thomas H. Maren, American professor of medicine, heart failure.
• Mark McPhee, 35, Australian cricketer, traffic accident.
• Celestine Sibley, 85, American newspaper reporter.[34]

16

• David W. Allen, 54, American film and television stop motion animator.
• Laura Andreson, American ceramic artist.
• Nancy Guild, 73, American film actress, emphysema.[35]
• Hédard Robichaud, 87, Canadian politician.
• Rudolf Sremec, 89, Yugoslav and Croatian film director.

17

• Randy Heflin, 80, American baseball player.
• Charles Samuel Joelson, 83, American lawyer and politician.[36]
• Reiner Klimke, 63, German equestrian, heart attack.
• Bill Tyquin, 80, Australian rugby player.

18

• Alfred Bickel, 81, Swiss football player and coach.
• Alf Kirchen, 85, English footballer.
• Hanoch Levin, 55, Israeli dramatist, theater director, author and poet, heart attack.[37]

19

• Giuseppe Beviacqua, 84, Italian long distance runner.
• William W. Evans Jr., 78, American Republican politician.
• Irene Falcón, 91, Spanish journalist, feminist and activist, respiratory condition.[38]
• Dee Fondy, 74, American baseball player.
• Rufus Lewis, 92, American civil rights activist and politician.
• Johnny Mapson, 82, English professional football player.
• Ian Orr-Ewing, Baron Orr-Ewing, 87, British politician.
• Arthur Pinajian, 85, American artist and comic book creator.
• Rodrigo Riera, 75, Venezuelan guitarist and composer.

20

• Bob Gallion, 75, American country music singer.
• Wes Graham, 67, Canadian professor of Computer Science.
• Bobby Sheehan, 31, American musician and songwriter, accidental overdose.
• Josane Sigart, 90, Belgian female tennis player.
• Abdus Salam Talukder, 62, Bangladeshi politician and lawyer.

21

• Leo Castelli, 91, Italian-American art dealer.[39]
• Paddy Chew, 39, Singaporean HIV/aids victim, complications of hiv infection.
• Venya D'rkin, 29, Russian singer-songwriter, poet, artist and painter, cancer (Hodgkin's lymphoma).
• Faisal bin Fahd, 54/55, Saudi prince, heart attack.[40]
• Sir Noel Larmour, 82, British diplomat.
• Maurice Moynihan, 96, Irish civil servant and economist.
• Jimmy Roe, 90, American soccer player.

22

• Aleksandr Demyanenko, 62, Russian film and theater actor, heart attack.
• Yann Goulet, 85, French sculptor.
• Muni, 70, French actress.

23

• Georges Boulogne, 82, French football player and manager.
• Frederick Earl Emmons, 91, American architect.
• Martha Rountree, 87, American pioneering broadcast journalist.[41]
• Ratan Shankar Mishra, 80, Indian mathematician and academic.
• Norman Wexler, 73, American screenwriter, heart attack.[42]
• James White, 71, Northern Irish author of science fiction novellas, short stories and novels, stroke.[43]

24

• Helen Burgess, 48, Canadian conservation scientist.
• Mary Jane Croft, 83, American actress.[44]
• Jo Gullett, 84, Australian soldier, politician, diplomat and journalist.
• William Kaye Lamb, 95, Canadian historian, archivist and librarian.
• Alexandre Lagoya, 70, French classical guitarist.[45]
• Lucrecia Reyes Urtula, 70, Filipina choreographer, theater director and author.
• Rom Varshamov, 72, Soviet Armenian mathematician.

25

• Ndyakira Amooti, 43, Ugandan children's writer, journalist and environmentalist, leukemia.
• Rob Fisher, 42, British songwriter and musician (Naked Eyes, Climie Fisher).[46]
• Dave Holmes, 75, American football player and coach, heart attack.
• Mona Salyer Lambird, 61, American lawyer, car accident.
• Jack Whent, 79, English soccer player.

26

• Andy Boarman, 87, American bluegrass and folk musician.
• Elena Murgoci, 39, Romanian long-distance runner, stabbed.
• Raymond Vernon, 85, American economist, cancer[47]

27

• Harold Jack Bloom, 75, American television producer and screenwriter, cancer.
• Hélder Câmara, 90, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop.
• Bai Guang, 78, Chinese actress and singer, colon cancer.
• Enzo Martinelli, 87, Italian mathematician.
• Louise Thompson Patterson, 97, American social activist and college professor.
• Paul Saltman, 71, American professor of biology and nutrition expert, prostate cancer.[48]

28

• Stephen Akinmurele, 21, British suspected serial killer, suicide.[49]
• Harvie M. Conn, 66, Canadian missionary.
• Dave Pope, 78, American baseball player.

29

• Jaime Fields, 29, American football player, hit-and-run car accident.
• Lani Kai, 63, Hawaiian singer and actor.[50]
• Sudhir Kumar Walia, 30, Indian Army officer, killed in action

30

• Samuel Eson Johnson Ecoma, 68, Nigerian jurist and Chief Judge.
• Kristapor Ivanyan, 78, Soviet and Armenian lieutenant general.
• Nicholas LaRocca, 85, American politician.[51]
• Fritz Shurmur, 67, American football coach.[52]
• Edward Stewart, 84, American set decorator.

31

• Marguerite Chapman, 81, American actress.[53]
• Ed Kea, 51, Canadian ice player, drowned.
• Sylvia Potts, 55, New Zealand middle-distance athlete, cancer.
• Henry Earl Singleton, 82, American electrical engineer and business executive.
• Irina Yanina, 32, Russian nurse, medical sergeant and Hero of the Russian Federation, killed in action.

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